Cotswold Motoring Museum’s objects d’car
Satellite Navigation has been chosen to complete the selection of the top 10 items for the History of Motoring exhibition at the Cotswold Motoring Museum at Bourton-on-the-water –
Das Beetle, that’s Welsh
Volkswagen launched a Welsh language advert for the new Beetle in the run up to St David’s Day with a little encouragement from a member of the Western Group –
Fiction trips off Hacker’s tongue
Car makers do their best to inspire journalists by inviting them to far-flung places, but for WGMW member Simon Hacker, the backdrop for many Scottish launches became the setting for a dark comedy –
Industry built on the sum of its parts
Tony Lewis continues his industrial amble through the last 30 years with a look at how the industry has globalised –
Roast lamb and mash, it was hard to digest some events of February ’83
From wedding rings given by one man to the world’s largest sheep roast, February 1983 was a highly eventful month, as Simon Hacker observes in his latest reflection on the events which hit the headlines along with the formation of the Western Group –
Scorpio had a sting in its tail
Western Group archivist Glen Smale ponders the birth, life and death of the Ford Scorpio, if you can remember it from 1985 to 1992 –
Castle Combe under starters orders for 2013
Castle Combe is the spiritual home of the Western Group and will again host the annual driving day this summer as part of an extensive revamp of the facilities and events while also retaining popular classics on two and four wheels, including pedal power –
Future Classics: 2 DeLorean DMC-12
They were good in their time and they will be even better when they mature, but we are not talking about members of the Western Group, rather the cars which our own Kim Henson has singled out as worthy of mention as he reflects on the models which have appeared during the life of the WGMW –
Honda cloud hides silver lining
Honda has made 800 redundant at Swindon, but WGMW past chairman and local business writer Leigh Robinson says the company still has a bright future in Britain –
From the chair: February 2013
It has been a muddy start to the year: firstly there was a day spent pounding a new Fiat Panda 4×4 over a fairly tortuous course laid out in the grounds of Stoneleigh Park. Despite tracks frozen, very muddy and deeply rutted the little Italian car coped...
Exclusive: WGMW Non Alcoholic drink experience
It may just have been tea, coffee or hot chocolate to drink but some members were still intoxicated by the ability of the new Range Rover on a snow-bound Eastnor driving experience –
Chemical reaction brings a smile to Jeremy’s face
Just over a year into his role as managing director of Jaguar Land Rover UK, Jeremy Hicks is seeing sales boom for both brands and is infectiously enthusiastic about his task of transforming the dealer network, as he told group chairman Ian Adcock –
